Word: three-year-olds
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...very first day he went to the races, the highbred bay colt won, and brought home $2,600. Before the year was out, he had earned $192,865. As a three-year-old, William Woodward Jr.'s Nashua was an odds-on favorite to win the 1955 Kentucky Derby. But from the first there were horseplayers who refused to recognize the signs of greatness. He's lazy, they said. He's a clown. He'll stop to count the house in the stretch. And when a California upstart named Swaps ran off with the Derby, Nashua...
Eight days earlier the fast and fancy three-year-old Andrea Doria- had departed her home port of Genoa and headed for Cannes, Naples and Gibraltar. Leaving the Rock, the 29,000-ton liner raced westward on her 101st Atlantic crossing. For Captain Piero Calamai and his crew it wa's; routine. For the businessmen, the priests and nuns returning from Rome, the Italian-Americans ending old-country visits, the immigrants bound for the golden shore, the crossing was an event...
...Kentucky Derby Winner Needles loafed along in last place for nearly a mile, then galloped full-out down the stretch to win the 88th running of the $119,650 Belmont Stakes last week and establish his claim as the nation's best three-year-old...
...incident. On one occasion his wife was attacked by a woman who noisily claimed to have been Djilas' mistress, but Djilas took the case to court, where the woman, a provocateur, was fined. Children in the neighborhood were told not to play with the Djilas' three-year-old son. A spy was planted in the grocery where the family bought its food. When these methods failed to shake the stubborn Djilas, the authorities insisted that he leave his old apartment for another in a house not yet built. Fearing that he was being run into the ground, Djilas...
Preakness (Sat. 5:45 p.m., CBS). Top three-year-old horse race, from Baltimore...